Re: [Flashcoders] sending information from HTML to swf

2007-07-26 Thread natalia Vikhtinskaya
I found what I need at http://www.mustardlab.com/developer/ The only question for help. I want to have flash player on the second html page. So I need after clicking on link on the first html page send mp3 name to the second html page as url with name.Then I should take this name from this URL and

Re: [Flashcoders] sending information from HTML to swf

2007-07-26 Thread Muzak
http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=flash+javascript+communicationmeta= - Original Message - From: natalia Vikhtinskaya [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 7:35 AM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] sending information from HTML to swf Any

[Flashcoders] Cell renderers in AS 3 UI Data Grid

2007-07-26 Thread John Skidgel
Hi List, Has anyone tried to have a column use a combo box inside a cell in a AS3 data grid? I've done a fair amount of searching help and livedocs and can't find any clear examples of how to do this. I believe I'd need to attach a cellRenderer to the column I'd like to use and write a

[Flashcoders] Re:Displaying Chinese character set via XML

2007-07-26 Thread Joe Cutting
I cannot get a dynamic text field to display Chinese characters from XML. Results vary from question marks in the field, to undefined, to blank. What should happen is that Flash derives elements from the XML and displays them in the textfield. I'm using XMLSA to parse the xml. I've no

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 - how do i find the path to where a MC belongs?

2007-07-26 Thread Dennis - I Sioux
Dunno about as3.. but what about the old _target property? :) - Original Message - From: quinrou . [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 12:06 PM Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 - how do i find the path to where a MC belongs? yeah eka

[Flashcoders] [JOB] - Flash Developer (Switzerland)

2007-07-26 Thread Phil Suter
Hi all! We are looking for a professional flash developer. We're located in Biel, Switzerland, the main office language is (swiss)german. We're working for interesting brands and develop and maintain the video magazine www.bkanal.ch. If you're interested please check out the detailed job

Re: [Flashcoders] (OT) fscommand and air

2007-07-26 Thread Zárate
If you need to creating PDFs from Flash itself, check out Alive PDF: http://www.bytearray.org/?p=104 Cheers! On 7/25/07, Troy Rollins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 25, 2007, at 6:21 PM, John Dowdell wrote: If so, then no, I don't... the current pre-releases can invoke an installed Adobe

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Events

2007-07-26 Thread Ian Thomas
On 7/25/07, Sunil Jolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, it's not very clear in all that garbled code. If you make a new instance of B each time then only 1 request would be made to each instance. Hi Sunil, I'm trying to cover situations where you _don't_ create a new instance of B each

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 instantiating a new class object from a string value

2007-07-26 Thread JOR
How about using the abstract factory design pattern? public class MyFactory { public static function createObject(objType:String):* { switch (objType) { case Foo: return new Foo(); case Bar: return new Bar(); default: return new Foo(); } } var

[Flashcoders] Flash Dev needed: BIG Interactive

2007-07-26 Thread Katherine Mason
BIG Interactive is seeking an intermediate-level fulltime flash developer. If you have experience with all things Flash, as well as experience with AS2 and OOP, and you are looking for a position where you can learn and enhance those skills while creating award caliber Flash experiences, we

[Flashcoders] object Arrays

2007-07-26 Thread ilteris kaplan
Hello All, Basically I am trying to create a object which I can pass to my array and then access some properties of this object. Only problem is, I am trying to achieve this in a class. Basically I declared my array as a class variable and then instantiated it in my constructor function

Re: [Flashcoders] object Arrays

2007-07-26 Thread Ron Wheeler
Show the whole class definition. The compiler is pretty definite but you have not shown the part that it is complaining about. You are only show the part where it realizes that a complaint is in order. The error is higher up in the code. Ron David Ngo wrote: Are you declaring your

Re: [Flashcoders] object Arrays

2007-07-26 Thread Paul Andrews
It's not really good paractice to name classes with Obj in the title, but anyway: class lizPieceObj { public var levelup:MovieClip; public varlizPieceMC:MovieClip; public varmasker:MovieClip; public varlevelMasker:MovieClip; public function lizPieceObj(levelup:MovieClip,

Re: [Flashcoders] How to Avoid Terminate Script Message

2007-07-26 Thread Johannes Nel
you change change the timeout of the swf before you make it a projector with a tool such as flasm On 7/26/07, Rákos Attila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Split the parsing process into chunks (e.g. parse maximum n nodes in a frame). Or if your data is static and will not change (e.g. it is

[Flashcoders] DataGrid in Flash CS3 with AS3

2007-07-26 Thread Paul Steven
I am still struggling to create a flash AS3 application that needs to display a datagrid of data similar to the following: http://www.mediakitchen.co.uk/mark_sheet.jpg I would appreciate advice as to whether the datagrid is the most suitable approach to the display of data like this? I hadn't

RE: [Flashcoders] Cell renderers in AS 3 UI Data Grid

2007-07-26 Thread Kalani Bright
Aloha John, Check this out. It will help you understand cellrenderers. http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=B4AED CellRenderers are a bit confusing at first glance but once you understand UI components they get less so. Really you can have anything you want in a cell. Just

RE: [Flashcoders] object Arrays

2007-07-26 Thread David Ngo
Are you declaring your properties public or have public getters to access them within your class? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ilteris kaplan Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 3:18 PM To: Flash Lists Subject: [Flashcoders] object Arrays

[Flashcoders] Blazepdf examples?

2007-07-26 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Hi list... Does anyone have any links to blazePDF examples? I can't seem to find any when searching. Thanks, - MM ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

Re: [Flashcoders] [CS3 - AS3] Getting BitmapData from a Library image

2007-07-26 Thread Charles Parcell
Indeed. I should have thought of that. Its base class is BitmapData and it requires two parameters (w,h) when creating a new object. Many thanks! Charles P. On 7/26/07, Jobe Makar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I know it doesn't make sense, but try passing in the width and height in the

[Flashcoders] How to Avoid Terminate Script Message

2007-07-26 Thread Jorge Antonio Diaz Gutierrez
Hello there people: I'm creating a projector that parses a XML DataBase but parsing takes about 10 seconds, so Terminate Script Windows came up each time I launch my app. Any suggestion?? Is there any way to set it disabled on my Projector. Thanks

Re: [Flashcoders] Q:simple depth management

2007-07-26 Thread R�kos Attila
mc.getInstanceAtDepth(mc.getNextHighestDepth() - 1); Attila =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Date:Thursday, July 26, 2007, 7:48:20 PM Subject:

[Flashcoders] Q:simple depth management

2007-07-26 Thread moveup
Maybe I've just been working too late, but can't get my head around the MOST EFFICIENT way of retrieving the topmost nested movieclip inside another movieclip. Suggestions? [e] jbach at bitstream.ca [c] 416.668.0034 [w] www.bitstream.ca ...all

Re: [Flashcoders] (OT) fscommand and air

2007-07-26 Thread elibol
Yea but it definite solves my problems. Thank you Zarate. On 7/26/07, Troy Rollins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 26, 2007, at 4:19 AM, Zárate wrote: If you need to creating PDFs from Flash itself, check out Alive PDF: http://www.bytearray.org/?p=104 Personally, I was more

[Flashcoders] Textfield over Bitmap Issue

2007-07-26 Thread Michael Trim
Is the following a known issue? If so anyone know what I can do about it? If you look at the screenshot (linked below) there is a coloured line along the top of the word Germany (it appears all around while tweening, on the outline of the textbox). It is a dynamically created textfield over a

Re: [Flashcoders] (OT) fscommand and air

2007-07-26 Thread ben gomez farrell
Ya know what would be great for the next release of Director. If Lingo would have some native support for those classes and features that AIR supports. So, you make an AIR app, but realize that you need some if this extra functionality that only Director can give you. Just take your AIR

RE: [Flashcoders] AS3 instantiating a new class object from a string value

2007-07-26 Thread Benny
MaTT, See getDefinitionByName() function in flash.utils It will give you a reference to the class name that is specified by a string. You can then use that reference to get an instance of that class. Of course you must make sure the class is loaded. Regards, Benny -Oorspronkelijk

RE: [Flashcoders] (OT) fscommand and air

2007-07-26 Thread John Dowdell
I don't have the full thread here at the moment, but if no one has mentioned Gregg Wygonik's BlazePDF work, for creation of PDF files from within SWF, then here's the link: http://www.blazepdf.com/faq.html jd/adobe ___

Re: [Flashcoders] getURL with doc doesn't work in IE

2007-07-26 Thread Darren Bowers
Hi Daniel, Yes we have encountered this quite a lot as we used to link to quite a few docs from a flash movie from CDROMs. Never really had a fix for it except to create an HTML document that automatically redirected to the DOC from within. Problem was, you couldnt send a query string to the

[Flashcoders] Memory issue with large images

2007-07-26 Thread Lori Hutchek
Hi All, Sorry if this is an old issue thats been discussed but couldn't find anything in google or the archives. I'm building a program that loads in images that could be over 2mb and we have noticed that the memory usage spikes after the image is loaded. Not only that but depending on if u

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 instantiating a new class object from a stringvalue

2007-07-26 Thread Paul Andrews
- Original Message - From: Matt Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 12:29 PM Subject: [Flashcoders] AS3 instantiating a new class object from a stringvalue Hi, I'm trying to instantiate a new class

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 - how do i find the path to where a MC belongs?

2007-07-26 Thread quinrou .
yeah eka that seems to be a good solution but a bit resourceful depending how deep the nested mcs are. Surely there must be a native property or medoth to find the tree/path from the mc to the stage... This is driving mad... On 7/24/07, eka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello :) in AS3 i don't

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Events

2007-07-26 Thread Ian Thomas
Hi Frank, Having had a think about it, that's not _much_ different to what Delegate is doing under the hood - just Delegate's wrapper is much much lighter weight. Your version does make sure the returned event is properly typed, which is an advantage. I think I'm going with another answer in

Re: [Flashcoders] sending information from HTML to swf

2007-07-26 Thread Muzak
http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=javascript+url+querystringmeta= And you should consider joining flashnewbies: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashnewbie - Original Message - From: natalia Vikhtinskaya [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Sent:

Re: [Flashcoders] sending information from HTML to swf

2007-07-26 Thread natalia Vikhtinskaya
Thank you I have found. name = name.replace(/[\[]/,\\\[).replace(/[\]]/,\\\]); var regexS = [\\?]+name+=([^#]*); var regex = new RegExp( regexS ); var results = regex.exec( window.location.href ); if( results == null ) return ; else return results[1]; Maybe anybody need.

Re: [Flashcoders] How to Avoid Terminate Script Message

2007-07-26 Thread R�kos Attila
Split the parsing process into chunks (e.g. parse maximum n nodes in a frame). Or if your data is static and will not change (e.g. it is distributed on CD-ROM, etc.), convert the XML into an AS source file of arrays and objects, and compile it into the main SWF or into a separate movie, which can

[Flashcoders] [JOB] Flash coder needed ASAP -- AS2

2007-07-26 Thread g . wygonik
Hey all The company i work for is looking for an Actionscript person to work with me (and a couple server peeps and designers). We're a social-network development company with 97% of new projects being 100% Flash front ends. Our projects are mostly for network television properties, and based

Re: [Flashcoders] (OT) fscommand and air

2007-07-26 Thread elibol
Thank you John. On 7/26/07, John Dowdell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have the full thread here at the moment, but if no one has mentioned Gregg Wygonik's BlazePDF work, for creation of PDF files from within SWF, then here's the link: http://www.blazepdf.com/faq.html jd/adobe

RE: [Flashcoders] AS3 instantiating a new class object from a stringvalue

2007-07-26 Thread David Ngo
Look at getDefinitionByName. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jake Prime Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 9:27 AM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 instantiating a new class object from a stringvalue I'm

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 instantiating a new class object from a string value

2007-07-26 Thread Matt Muller
Thanks, I ended up doing this though... var ClassReference:Class = getDefinitionByName(com.foo.view.playerSkins. + aTopNavItems[i].classType) as Class; this[aTopNavItems[i].class_id] = new ClassReference(); cheers, MaTT On 7/26/07, Jake Prime [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure about the

Re: [Flashcoders] Re:Displaying Chinese character set via XML

2007-07-26 Thread Marc Hoffman
Thanks, but I don't think that's the problem. I've reverted to using Notepad and still have problems. Marc At 01:48 AM 7/26/2007, Joe Cutting wrote: I cannot get a dynamic text field to display Chinese characters from XML. Results vary from question marks in the field, to undefined, to

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 instantiating a new class object from a string value

2007-07-26 Thread R�kos Attila
flash.utils package, getDefinitionByName() Attila =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= From:Matt Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Flashcoders mailing list flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Date:Thursday, July 26, 2007, 1:29:47 PM Subject:

RE: [Flashcoders] [Solved] getURL with doc doesn't work in IE

2007-07-26 Thread Holth, Daniel C.
Removed _blank from the getURL and its working now. Daniel Holth I.S. Programmer x5217 || J401 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Holth, Daniel C. Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 6:18 AM To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com Subject:

Re: [Flashcoders] FileReference returning full path?

2007-07-26 Thread Muzak
Upload the file and return the full path when done. Look into the uploadCompleteData event http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/net/FileReference.html#event:uploadCompleteData regards, Muzak - Original Message - From: Mendelsohn, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [Flashcoders] (OT) fscommand and air

2007-07-26 Thread Troy Rollins
On Jul 26, 2007, at 4:19 AM, Zárate wrote: If you need to creating PDFs from Flash itself, check out Alive PDF: http://www.bytearray.org/?p=104 Personally, I was more interested in display of PDF content in a manner which is consistent with the rest of my applications. For this,

Re: [Flashcoders] Displaying Chinese character set via XML

2007-07-26 Thread Kenneth Kawamoto
If you're using Unicode for your XML, the language used for text does not make any difference if it's French or Chinese. But your TextField needs characters embedded to display the text - if you're not using a device font. I just created a bare-bones movie with a TextField on Stage, with

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 Events

2007-07-26 Thread Ian Thomas
Hi Muzak, I think what I've already decided (having slept on it) to go for something similar to your 3rd method - to restructure (class that behave like) A so that they can carry (and return) context info. The reason I finally decided to go for that rather than Delegate is actually to deal

[Flashcoders] Contract work - AS2 and AS3

2007-07-26 Thread Jobe Makar
Hi, Electrotank is looking for a few contractors for a variety of projects. Projects range in scope from ActionScript 2/3 games and applications, to technical writing and multi-user widget development. Work would be remote. Please send men an email offlist to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please

Re: [Flashcoders] [CS3 - AS3] Getting BitmapData from a Library image

2007-07-26 Thread Jobe Makar
Hi, I know it doesn't make sense, but try passing in the width and height in the constructor. If I remember correctly that will do it. Jobe Makar http://www.electrotank.com http://www.electro-server.com phone: 252-627-8026 mobile: 919-609-0408 fax: 919-882-1121 - Original Message -

[Flashcoders] FileReference returning full path?

2007-07-26 Thread Mendelsohn, Michael
Hi list... Any way for FileReference to return the full path instead of just the name of the file selected? If not, how else to get it? - MM ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive:

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 instantiating a new class object from a string value

2007-07-26 Thread eka
Hello :) in AS3 to instanciate an object with only this class name (String) you can use the flash.utils.getDefinitionByName() method : http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/utils/package.html#getDefinitionByName() EKA+ :) 2007/7/26, JOR [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How

[Flashcoders] getURL with doc doesn't work in IE

2007-07-26 Thread Holth, Daniel C.
Hello, I have the following code in an onRelease event of a button: getURL(systems_breakdown_notes.doc,_blank); In FireFox the document opens fine, but in IE it gives a page error: Action canceled : Internet Explorer was unable to link to the Web page you requested. The page might be

[Flashcoders] AS3 instantiating a new class object from a string value

2007-07-26 Thread Matt Muller
Hi, I'm trying to instantiate a new class object from a xml attribute which is a string, but its not having any of it. I've tried casting the string to an object and also using this['class_id'] etc but no luck. Does someone have a solution? Thanks, MaTT

RE: [Flashcoders] Team Foundation Server

2007-07-26 Thread Doug Coning
Thanks, I believe Dreamweaver is suppose to work with TFS through MSSCCI Provider interface, but I haven't discovered how to set it up... Doug Coning Senior Web Development Programmer FORUM Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Adobe Flash Certified Expert -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flashcoders] AS3 instantiating a new class object from a string value

2007-07-26 Thread Jake Prime
I'm not sure about the actual code to instantiate, however make sure that the class you are creating is actually compiled in the first place. If it is not explicitly mentioned in your code somewhere it will not be compiled and will not be able to be created at run-time. jake On 26/07/07, Matt

Re: [Flashcoders] Textfield over Bitmap Issue

2007-07-26 Thread Zeh Fernando
Is the following a known issue? If so anyone know what I can do about it? If you look at the screenshot (linked below) there is a coloured line along the top of the word Germany (it appears all around while tweening, on the outline of the textbox). Hey Michael, I've seen this happening before

[Flashcoders] [CS3 - AS3] Getting BitmapData from a Library image

2007-07-26 Thread Charles Parcell
I am stumped. I have an image in my Library and I have set it to export to AS and in frame 1. I have given it the Linkage of Brick and the flash.display.BitmapData . With just that, I am able to build a SWF with no errors. But I want to use the image's BitmapData to build a larger image that